Rail anchor for railway rails



July 23, 1929. w. E. WILLIAMS 1,721,343

RAIL ANCHOR FOR RAILWAY RAILt Original Filed Oct. 29, 1927 Patented July 23, 1929.

UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

RAIL ANCHOR FOR RAILWAY RAILS.

Original application filed October 29, 1927, Serial No. 229,580, Patent No. 1,689,003, dated October 23, 1928.

Divided and this application filed January 21, 1929.

This is a divisional application of my original application Serial No. 229,580 filed Get. 29, 1927, which matured into Patent No. 1,689,003 dated October 23, 1928.

The object of my invention is to provide a rail anchor composed of two parts, one part being heavy and adapted to grip tightly on the base of the rail and the other part being of lighter material and adapted to be turned over the opposite edge of the base of the rail and hold the anchor firmly in place on the rail.

The invention resides in the two piece anchor and the means of uniting the pieces together to function as a unit. Also in the details of the construction and of the forms of the material used as will be set forth in the claims.

Reference will be had to the accompanying drawings in which Fig. 1 is an elevation of the anchor applied to the rail, the rail being in cross-section. The position of the anchor shown in this figure is after the gripping part of the anchor has been applied and before the locking means for holding the anchor permanently in place has been turned up.

Fig. 2 shows the anchor of Fig. 1 locked in position for service.

Fig. 3 is a modified form of the anchor shown in Figs. 1 and 2 the difference relating to the means of joining the heavy portion with the light portion of the anchor.

Fig. 4 is a section on line 44 of Fig. 3.

Fig. 5 is a modified form of the anchor the difference relating to the means of joining two difierent pieces of metal together.

Fig. 6 is a sectional View on line 66 of Fig. 5.

Fig. 7 is a sectional view on line 77 of Fig. 5.

In the drawings 1 indicates the base of the rail and 2 the web thereof the head being omitted for clearance of space. 3 indicates the rail anchor gripping member which is made of a stocky spring steel or hardened piece of metal which is driven onto the inclined face of the base of the rail. 4 indicates the secondary piece of the anchor suitably secured in any desirable manner to the gripping member 3 and the secondary piece is provided with an extended limb 5 having a fulcrum protruding bend 6 which after the gripping member 3 has been driven tightly on Serial No. 334,046.

the rail is bent over from the position of Fig. 1 to that of Fig. 2.

The projection 6 makes a firm tightening and binding of the anchor to the rail by contact at 7 Figure 2.

The secondary member 1 has a downward projecting flange 8 adapted to abut against the side of the tie.

Thus far the description fits all of the figures of the drawings and the difierence lies in the means of connecting the gripping mem ber 3 with the secondary member 1 and in the case of Figs. 1 and 2 the gripping member 3 is provided with a little recess portion 9 into which the end 10 of the secondary member is pressed and held therein by means of a spot weld 11;

As relates to Figs. 5, 6, and 7 the gripping member 4 is provided with a secondary flange 12 which embraces the body piece 3 in cooperation with the flange 8 and these two pieces are connected together by spot welds 13.

As relates to Figs. 3 and 4 the secondary member 3 is recessed on the side as indicated by 14 in Fig. 7 and a co-acting flange 15 of the secondary member 4 is pressed into this recess 14 and also the lower end 16 of the flange 15 is turned tightly under the lower portion of the gripping member 3 and thus produces a clamping locking means of holding the gripping member and the secondary member together as shoulder 17 insures a secure union of the two pieces which make the anchor.

The real member which does the gripping on the rail and anchors itagainst lengthwise movement is the gripping member 3 which may be made of rather high-class metal either cast or forged and be made strong enough to stand the strain and produce the desired amount of grip on the rail and the secondary member may be made of any cheap low carbon material that will bend relatively easily and thus facilitate locking of the gripping member to the rail to prevent its displacement by vibration or violent changes in temperature and violent lateral shock that rails un dergo in climates wherein there are relatively long periods of freezing temperature, ice, and snow contacting with the anchor all of which causes the anchor to loosen up but with the construction here shown I may make the gripping member of the most desirable material and in the most desirable way and then make the balance of it light, of softer metal, and unite the two in the manner indicated producing, as it were, a better anchor, lighter in Weight and less in cost than any anchors of unitary material.

Vhat I claim is:

1. In an anchor of the class described, made of two sections united together, one of them having a gripping jaw of hard elastic metal and the other section of softer metal and the tWo united by being interlockedtogether to act as a unitary piece for an anchor.

2. In an anchor of the class described, a gripping member and a secondary member, the gripping member being composed of stocky elastic material and the secondary member of malleable material adapted to bend Without breaking and the two pieces united by interlocking projections and sustained in that position by spot Welds and the like.

3. In an anchor of the class described, composed of a stocky gripping section and a relatively thin metal for a secondary member and the two portions joined together by flanges on the secondary member embracing the body of the gripping member and secured thereto.

4. In an anchor of the class described, a gripping member of relatively stocky portion adapted to grip the top inclined face of the base of the rail and extend underneath the base of the rail and united to a secondary piece located underneath the base of the rail, said secondary piece being adapted to bend upward at its outer edge to engage the base of the rail after the said stocky portion is fixed in final position on the rail.

5. In an anchor of the class described, a relatively stocky gripping member having a portion which grips the top inclined surface of tee base of the rail and having a portion extending under the base or": the rail and a secondary member having flanges embracing the gripping member at a location underneath the base of the rail, said flanges being pressed into a recessed end in the body of the gripping member.

6. In an anchor of the class described, a gripping member of stocky elastic material adapted to wedge onto one edge of the base of the rail and connected to a secondary member at a position underneath the base of the rail and in contact therewith and said secondary member extending to and over the opposite edge of the base of the rail from the location of the gripping member and adapted to hold the gripping member in fixed relation to the rail, said secondary member being adapted to have its outer end bent up over the edge of the rail after said gripping member is in final position on the rail.

Signed at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois this 17th day of January, 1929.

WILLIAM ERASTUS WVILLIAMS. 

